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Venture performance in Malaysia : personal initiative, human capital, and areas of founding entrepreneurs as critical success factors

This paper investigates the impact of factors such as personal initiative (PI), human capital, and competencies of founding entrepreneurs on venture growth. Malaysian entrepreneurs, who have taken their firms to the growth stage, have been used as respondents in this study. The factor PI is relative...

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Main Authors: Sambasivan, Murali, Lim, Li Yen, Che Rose, Raduan, Abdul, Mohani
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Published: Routledge 2010
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/22730/
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spelling my.upm.eprints.227302014-12-26T08:14:05Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/22730/ Venture performance in Malaysia : personal initiative, human capital, and areas of founding entrepreneurs as critical success factors Sambasivan, Murali Lim, Li Yen Che Rose, Raduan Abdul, Mohani This paper investigates the impact of factors such as personal initiative (PI), human capital, and competencies of founding entrepreneurs on venture growth. Malaysian entrepreneurs, who have taken their firms to the growth stage, have been used as respondents in this study. The factor PI is relatively new to entrepreneurial research. Consistent with the theory, it is found that firms managed by high PI entrepreneurs achieve higher growth. In this study, competencies of founding entrepreneurs have been found to have a significant impact on venture growth. Routledge 2010 Article PeerReviewed Sambasivan, Murali and Lim, Li Yen and Che Rose, Raduan and Abdul, Mohani (2010) Venture performance in Malaysia : personal initiative, human capital, and areas of founding entrepreneurs as critical success factors. Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 23 (3). pp. 315-332. ISSN 0827-6331; ESSN: 2169-2610 10.1080/08276331.2010.10593488
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description This paper investigates the impact of factors such as personal initiative (PI), human capital, and competencies of founding entrepreneurs on venture growth. Malaysian entrepreneurs, who have taken their firms to the growth stage, have been used as respondents in this study. The factor PI is relatively new to entrepreneurial research. Consistent with the theory, it is found that firms managed by high PI entrepreneurs achieve higher growth. In this study, competencies of founding entrepreneurs have been found to have a significant impact on venture growth.
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author Sambasivan, Murali
Lim, Li Yen
Che Rose, Raduan
Abdul, Mohani
spellingShingle Sambasivan, Murali
Lim, Li Yen
Che Rose, Raduan
Abdul, Mohani
Venture performance in Malaysia : personal initiative, human capital, and areas of founding entrepreneurs as critical success factors
author_facet Sambasivan, Murali
Lim, Li Yen
Che Rose, Raduan
Abdul, Mohani
author_sort Sambasivan, Murali
title Venture performance in Malaysia : personal initiative, human capital, and areas of founding entrepreneurs as critical success factors
title_short Venture performance in Malaysia : personal initiative, human capital, and areas of founding entrepreneurs as critical success factors
title_full Venture performance in Malaysia : personal initiative, human capital, and areas of founding entrepreneurs as critical success factors
title_fullStr Venture performance in Malaysia : personal initiative, human capital, and areas of founding entrepreneurs as critical success factors
title_full_unstemmed Venture performance in Malaysia : personal initiative, human capital, and areas of founding entrepreneurs as critical success factors
title_sort venture performance in malaysia : personal initiative, human capital, and areas of founding entrepreneurs as critical success factors
publisher Routledge
publishDate 2010
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/22730/
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